Which are the weirdest Mumsnet topics?

[SpamBeansAndWaffles]

I mean the ones that bear no resemblance to how people function in real life.

The doghouse - dogs must never be left for even reasonably short periods. In real life people just do this without thinking to go shopping or work.

The weddings threads - the absolute 'your wedding your rules' mantra. You have a brother who has helped and supported you your whole life, who has looked after your dc and generally been a kind and supportive family member. No invite for him! We want no more than five guests!

Relationships LTB - for even small issues as though it's an easy and logical thing to do. (I know there are excellent posters supporting people to leave genuinely abusive relationships).

I know no-one who does this! I’m genuinely shocked you think this is ok! 😮

Oh god, you’ve reminded me about the user last month who made her own DH shit at work so he didn’t contaminate her pristine loo! Of course her shitting in it was totally different 🤣

I wasn’t aware of the toilet brush haters on here. How the hell do they get skid marks off the toilet?! Surely whatever method they use is a lot more unhygienic than owning a toilet brush!…or i imagine they claim their family does not leave skid marks 🤣

I'm shocked everyone you know does this. I don't know anyone who does.

The 'throw them out' advice on lazy teenager threads. As if any normal loving parent would see their kids on the streets.

Why wouldn’t it be ok in a locked room with a baby monitor that you’re max 5 minutes away from? I don’t see the difference between this and having dinner downstairs in your house with the baby monitor

This. And “my teen swore at me” - “you are being abused”

Oooh noo! I don’t even have kids but just the thought of this gives me chills. It’s not impossible for locked hotel doors to be unlocked and a baby monitor isn’t necessarily going to be much help 😬

🤣🤣

The absolute horror that some people may start planning Christmas earlier than December 24th.

Like, they simply cannot comprehend that some people have to budget and spread the cost across multiple months and/or take advantage of sales.

Well, typically there aren't strangers wandering the hallways of my house who could open the bedroom doors. Hotel key cards are easily cloned..

How big is your house?! I can run a km in 5 minutes. It takes me seconds to get to my children’s rooms.

Anyway, in answer to your question:

1. Fire/smoke and associated issues with returning back to my room to evacuate my child.
2. Locked doesn’t mean inaccessible (for staff members or travellers given the wrong key card/room)
3. Madeline McCann

'Could you move house?' being suggested as the answer to everything from DIY dilemmas to neighbour issues to school places.

Share equality with who?

Are you saying all toilets should be unisex?

Baby Names board posters who "can't get my head around" how someone can give their child one name and call them something else - e.g., Elizabeth > Liz or Benjamin > Ben, or how other people will know to call the baby by the parents' chosen diminutive and not some random other one. ("You have to name her Liz if you want to call her that; Elizabeth will be Bibby!!")

I'm all for putting Liz or Sam on your child's birth certificate if you want, but it's hard to believe people really haven't also encountered a case of someone "known as" a diminutive of their legal first name. Even if you've never met such a person IRL, most people will have heard of the fiendish Prince Harry, just for example? And Catherine, Princess of Wales?

Not answering the front door. I didn’t know it was so common! (As in, lots of people don’t answer their doors. Although maybe it is class related - this is MN after all)

Because in your own house you are feet away from the baby , no noise and you presumably don’t have dozens of strangers walking around ?

Sorry but in my case it is most of the first-time pregnant ones. I know it is a very long time ago I was pregnant but ffs ‘I bent over have I harmed my baby? I am 4 months pregnant’ and the like. Some of them are just ludicrous.

also pregnancy testing the day your period is missed, having these super- sensitive testing kits is not necessarily a good thing.

I really wish I could block some topics. And yes, I do scroll past most .

Well I don't know about you, but I don't have hundreds, possibly thousands of strangers wandering around my house when I'm eating dinner. Nor do I have multiple floors and long corridors. And nobody has a master key that let's them open all the locked doors in my house. Not to mention the fact that my children's rooms were safe, familiar places for them so waking up alone in there would have been a very different experience to waking up in a strange hotel room.
Though in fact we hardly ever left our children upstairs when we were downstairs anyway.

We are all equal now so we have to share 50/50.
Not that i like it but thats the world we wanted.

The Autumn love.Well rather the MN romanticised version of Autumn. All snuggling under blankets,soup making,wearing gloves and scarves on walks in the crisp Autumn air.

I blame instagram and stupid pumpkin lattes for that nonsense !

😆😆

I do love the crisp autumn air, hate being hot. Love it when its got that slightly damp, before rain feeling in the air. But I hate soup, hats, gloves, scarves and hot chocolate..🤣

Snuggling under a blanket, amazing, best naps on the sofa under a blanket.

People jumping on threads about people being horrified by the gazan genocide to try justify it/ brush it off/claim it’s AI/add some whatabouterry.

Nuts.

Bit much for a non serious thread?!

non serious answer- how many people ask if it’s ok to have a baby over 40. Yes let’s ask random people on the internet with completely different lives this qn that can only be answered yourself. The answer is ‘for some people who had kids young, it’s too old, for some people it’s completely normal. do what the fuck you want.’